FC7 test4 Live CD runs makewhatis and prelink cron jobs

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Apr 30 15:29:24 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 13:54 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Friday 27 April 2007 23:15:50 Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> > My marginal system is drooling all over itself as I type this as I try
> > to kill of enough processes to get it responsive. Is there any reason
> > at all to run anacron on the LiveCD? It has made my system comatose.
> 
> Because the LiveCD can be installed to run native on the system, and there you 
> want things like this to run.  I think a good strategy for this is to add 
> support to either these cron jobs or the applications themselves to see if 
> they're running in a stateless environment and "opt-out" of running.

Adding to every application doesn't make sense, though; especially for
things triggered from cron/etc which we can just disable while the
liveCD is running from the liveCD case.  

And it was intended to be done for test4, I just forgot about anacron
since it tends to be one of the first things I remove on my systems ;-)

Jeremy




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